[ Posted: Feb 16, 2007 ]
Lord Whimsy and Bloomsbury are pleased and proud to announce the US/UK release of the long-awaited hardcover edition of: The Affected Provincial's Companion, Volume One.
In his attempt to live as beautifully as his modest means will allow, Lord Whimsy has lived in a former army barracks in a small rural town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens for twelve years. There he has created for himself a garden-choked naturalist/aesthete's outpost filled with books, animals, and artwork. He regularly posts his dispatches on an online journal, where he discusses topics as diverse as carnivorous plants, moustache grooming, French nineteenth-century cameo glass vases, and the great Wallace Shawn. Written, designed and illustrated by the author, The Affected Provincial's Companion, Volume One is an artifact of the life he has led. Brimming with hyperbolic essays and meticulous philosophical diagrams, the Companion is both funny and profound. One reviewer summed it up thusly: "Whimsy's well-turned phrases (to say nothing of his illustrative graphs) are, though distanced and quaintly arcane, sweetly smart and modern."
"A Bounteous Selection of Essays, Philosophical Diagrams, Poetry, and Other Such Arcadian Follies Concerning the Art of Curious Living and the Reintroduction of Ancient Charm into This Vale of Mud and Tears Known Heretofore as the Modern Life"
...one of the more charming treatises to come along in years...
—The New York Times
...one of the most entertaining—and certainly weirdest—non-fiction titles of the summer...the Companion is a lifestyle battlecry, both quaint and radical, lighthearted and dead serious...it feels good to know that a book this quirky can still get published.
—The Associated Press
Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp's production company, has bought the option rights to the Affected Provincial's Companion, Vol. 1. a compendium of essays, diagrams and poetry written, designed and illustrated by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy as a treatise on the value of being a refined gentleman in today's unrefined world.
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